{"id":286032,"date":"2017-11-28T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=286032"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:47:34","slug":"pine-crest-coach-jay-fitzgerald-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pine-crest-coach-jay-fitzgerald-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine Crest Coach Jay Fitzgerald Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jay Fitzgerald<\/strong>, who has served as head coach and aquatic director at Pine Crest School since 1995, has announced his retirement, effective at the end of the 2017-2018 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald announced the news at the school&#8217;s athletic awards last week.\u00a0<strong>Mariusz<\/strong> <strong>Podkoscielny<\/strong>, currently Fitzgerald&#8217;s assistant and a two-time Olympian for Poland, will take over as head coach and aquatic director next season.<\/p>\n<p>Before Pine Crest, Fitzgerald was head coach at the Dad&#8217;s Club in Houston, at the Cincinnati Marlins and at Santa Clara Swim Club. Before that, he assisted legendary coaches\u00a0<strong>Don Gambril\u00a0<\/strong>at Alabama and\u00a0<strong>Skip Kenney\u00a0<\/strong>with the Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald produced strong team finishes at U.S. Nationals at each club he worked at, including efforts that turned the Dad&#8217;s Club from a team with no National qualifiers to a top-ten program and YMCA national champions within two years. In Santa Clara, Fitzgerald\u00a0helped rebuild the strong legacy of success after a down period prior to his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>At Pine Crest, his girls and boys teams have eachwon district titles in 21 of Fitzgerald&#8217;s 23 seasons, and on the state level, Fitzgerald&#8217;s boys have been runner-up 16 times while the girls have 10 second-place finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Fitzgerald coached three members of the 1984 U.S. Olympic team (<strong>Betsy Mitchell<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Dave Wilson<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Kim Rhodenbaugh<\/strong>), and he twice served on U.S. coaching staffs at the FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"286041\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pine-crest-coach-jay-fitzgerald-announces-retirement\/jay-fitzgerald-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jay-fitzgerald-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1030,1341\" 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